#MondayMotivation ::: Don’t wait till you have all your ducks in a row before following your dreams. The ducks will never cooperate. Just do your best with what you have and with the time you have. Your lifetime is limited. Take a chance. Be bold! — Jonathan Tad Ketchen

I took this photo while a student at Covenant College (www.covenant.edu),
Lookout Mountain, Georgia, U.S.A., in the late 1980’s. The shadow
illusion involves two shadows on the ground. One is a shadow of a
lamppost. The other shadow is of me with my arm outstretched. The
illusion is that my hand is holding the lamppost, when the reality is my
hand was actually grasping at air. I simply moved my hand until the
shadows made it appear that I was grabbing the lamppost. The lamppost
and I were not even in the same location; the sun was just casting long
shadows for me to play with.

A huge fan of THE FAR SIDE® by Gary Larson,while in college in the late 1980’s,I created 9-1-1, my own cartoon panel series,the first two of which appeared inCovenant College’s student magazine, The Bagpipe.I liked to joke that I called my comic panel
“9-1-1” because it needed help.

Shortly after I left Covenant College, Dad took me to see Covenant College Chorale perform near Philadelphia, on their Chorale Tour. I had previously been in the Chorale with fellow student Keith Jones, and he was still performing in it, so it was great to see him again. When talking with him after the concert, Keith gave me a donation idea for my “9-1-1” comic panel. The idea was hilarious, “toupees in a pod.” That was 1990. I finally got around to drawing it in 2000, and now I’m finally publishing it in 2018. I’m Jonathan Tad Ketchen, Pr.D. (Doctor of Procrastination).

I started using my old superzoom Canon 16 MP, 16x Optical Zoom camera again, since it’s
way more compact and convenient than my bigger, bulkier, and more
powerful SONY 20.1 MP, 63x Optical Zoom (which gets the moon almost 4
times bigger than the Canon). I’ll still use the SONY, especially when I
want insanely close lunar photos. But the Canon still does an amazing
superzoom job with the moon. Also, I just discovered a higher quality
setting than I knew about previously when I used the Canon all
the time, so picture quality may be even better. Also, today, I lit up
with joy, when I realized that my Canon has 1:1 as an aspect ratio
option! Now, I can do square photography, FINALLY! I love the idea of
1:1, which makes landscape versus portrait orientation a moot point!

At
Valparaiso University, in my Senior Solo Art Exhibit, this was turned
90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise — I don’t remember) and
titled, “THE END.” My graphic design professor really liked it. However,
long after the show, perhaps years later, I showed it to one of my
cousin’s very young daughters, and she said, I see people holding
watermelons. I turned it 90 degrees and saw it too. I sort of see
rippled potato chip people standing on both ends of a gondola, each
holding a watermelon. So, rotated from portrait to landscape
orientation, “THE END” became “WATERMELON SUNSET.”

Ha ha ha! I didn’t plan it that way, but I took this shot of the moon at 7:47 PM! Like I always say, “7:47 — Time to Fly!”
I’m crazy; just go with it. I shot this from my apartment building’s
parking lot, the evening of Monday, October 2, 2017 . . . yes, at 7:47
PM!

Although
my current superzoom camera captures the moon almost 4 times bigger, I
took my old, smaller, more compact pocket-fitting superzoom camera out
of mothballs to play with again. This is the first shot on it in quite a
while.

2018-02-02

Although I am all for gender-inclusion, I am against the recent emergence of gender-inclusive Bible translations. The Bible was not written in a gender-inclusive time, and if the Bible is truly the Word of God, as we claim; our translations should be as ACCURATE and PRECISE as possible, not as COMFORTABLE as possible.Even though “sons of God” refers to men or women, men need not get chauvinistic about it. Just remember, guys, at Christ’s Second Coming, we all become “the bride of Christ” including all you macho men. 👸 ❣️

I think I’ve finally found the perfect location for my JTK.CA
logo in my images. So far it looks like it shows up in cover photos on
ALL social media without being cropped out. Flickr​ was the ultimate
test. It’s the most croppy and challenging (http://flickr.com/NudistPoet).
Also, posting it from my computer does not line up things correctly,
but posting it on my phone makes my logo’s position perfect on the
computer screen and the phone screen. I also discovered a lot of
mathematical logic in finding the perfect position. I know this probably
means nothing to most of you, but it’s my source of joy (and
frustration) figuring these things out. I like a challenge. Well, a
challenge from myself. I’m not asking for challenges. Blah, blah, blah!

I love THE LEGEND OF JESUS AND THE ANGEL. The angel asks Jesus about the plan of salvation. Jesus says, "I died and rose again so that all those who believe in me would spread the word until the whole world puts their faith in me. Then I will return and be their King." The angel asks, "What if they don't do it?" Jesus says, "I have no other plans."